The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].D.A. Talboys, 1820 |
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... assist the dead ; and come , that thou mayest drink the pure purple blood of this virgin , which both the army and myself offer unto thee : but be propitious to us , and grant us to weigh anchor , and to loose the cables of our ships ...
... assist the dead ; and come , that thou mayest drink the pure purple blood of this virgin , which both the army and myself offer unto thee : but be propitious to us , and grant us to weigh anchor , and to loose the cables of our ships ...
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... assist thee , but backward , should I be murmured against among the Greeks . HEC . Alas ! no mortal is there who is free . For either he is the slave of money or of fortune ; or the populace of the city or the dictates of the laws ...
... assist thee , but backward , should I be murmured against among the Greeks . HEC . Alas ! no mortal is there who is free . For either he is the slave of money or of fortune ; or the populace of the city or the dictates of the laws ...
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... assist thy former calamities . But thou , if thou hast ought to blame for my absence , forbear ; for I chanced to be afar off in the middle of my Thracian territories , when thou camest hither ; but soon as I returned , as I was already ...
... assist thy former calamities . But thou , if thou hast ought to blame for my absence , forbear ; for I chanced to be afar off in the middle of my Thracian territories , when thou camest hither ; but soon as I returned , as I was already ...
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... assist me ? Why do ye delay ? The women have destroyed me . The captive women . Hor- rible , horrible treatment have I suffered . Alas ! my ruin . Whither shall I turn ? Whither shall I go ? Whether shall I soar through the ethereal ...
... assist me ? Why do ye delay ? The women have destroyed me . The captive women . Hor- rible , horrible treatment have I suffered . Alas ! my ruin . Whither shall I turn ? Whither shall I go ? Whether shall I soar through the ethereal ...
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... assist thee in thy miseries ? ORES . He is always about to do it , but such are the Gods by nature . MEN . But how long a time has thy mother's breath gone from her ? ORES . This is the sixth day since ; the funeral pyre is yet warm ...
... assist thee in thy miseries ? ORES . He is always about to do it , but such are the Gods by nature . MEN . But how long a time has thy mother's breath gone from her ? ORES . This is the sixth day since ; the funeral pyre is yet warm ...
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Adrastus Agamemnon Antigone Apollo Argives Argos arms army art thou behold blood calamity child CHOR CHORUS Clytemnestra corse Creon daughter dead dear death deed destroyed dost thou dreadful earth Edipus ELEC Electra enemy ETEO Eteocles evil eyes fate father fear fortune friends give Gods Grecian Greeks hand hast thou hath hear Hecuba Helen hither honour husband ills Ismenus Jason Jocasta Jove kill lament land marriage MEDEA Menelaus miserable misfortunes mortals mother murder Orestes palace Pelasgian perish Phoceans PHRY Phrygian POLY Polymestor Polynices POLYX Polyxena preserve Priam Pylades shew sister slain slay slew sons speak spear suffer sword tears Theban Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast thou sayest thou shalt thou wilt thy brother thy children thyself tomb Troy Tyndarus ULYSS unhappy virgin wife wilt thou woes woman women words wretched καὶ
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Page 141 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright Honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned Honour by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities.
Page 142 - Why, my child, dost thou so desirously court ambition, the most baneful of the deities ? do not thou ; the Goddess is unjust. But she hath entered into many families and happy states and hath come forth again, to the destruction of those who have to do with her. Of whom thou art madly enamoured. This is more noble, my son, to honour equality, which ever links friends with friends, and states with states, and allies with allies : for equality is sanctioned by law among men.
Page 80 - What is this ? how art thou ? in what state, O most dear to me of my companions and kindred ? for all these things art thou to me. OREs. We are gone — briefly to shew thee my calamities. PYL. Thou wilt have ruined me too ; for the things of friends are common. OREs. Menelaus has behaved most basely towards me and my sister. PYL. It is to be expected that the husband of a bad wife be bad.
Page 198 - CHORUs. CHOR. I heard the voice, I heard the cry of the unhappy Colchian ; is not she yet appeased ? but, O aged matron, tell me ; for within the apartment with double doors, I heard her cry; nor am I delighted, O woman, with the griefs of the family, since it is friendly to me. NUR. The family is not ; these things are gone already : 1 In Elms. Dind. rd yilp eWiaBai, "for the being accustomed,